To become proficient at editing, you have to practice being efficient. The easiest way to accomplish this is to analyze your editing workflow. When you catch yourself repeating the same task over and over again, stop and think about how you can get the same effect by cutting down steps. You could create a Look, relying on the power of artificial intelligence. This is how I’ve learned to become proficient at being able to take a blah photo and make it beautiful by simply starting with Accent AI in Luminar FLEX.
How Accent AI enhances a photo
Accent AI uses the power of artificial intelligence to analyze an image and automatically improves its color, detail, tone and depth of the image with just one slider. This sounds futuristic and it kind of is! The mystery goes away when you realize how the engineers accomplished this. They asked for thousands of before and after images from many top professional photographers and trained the software to mimic our editing styles. How cool is that? Plus they are always working on ways to improve it. The latest, Accent AI 2.0, is now human-aware — meaning it recognizes subjects in the image and adjusts skin tones appropriately.
It’s easier to show the results (and a lot more fun)
Here’s a quick 1-minute video showing how — with just one slider — Accent AI can take a blah photo and make it beautiful.
This doesn’t mean we should become a lazy photographer and rely on software to make our images look great. Accent AI takes that photo that we thought could be amazing, and turns it into reality. Starting each edit with Accent AI will cut down your editing workflow, helping you become proficient at making a blah photo look beautiful.
Lead photo by Ivan Kutanin
I have my PC in for repair. If I buy flex and download it to my laptop will I also be able to access the program on my PC when it returns from repair.
You absolutely can. Flex comes with a license for two machines, and you can reset those at any time through your account on Skylum’s website.
Brian, Thanks for the prompt reply. I have (own) Luminar 3. Somewhere I read that luminar 4 was a free update. Is this correct. Thanks kk
No, Luminar 4 will NOT be a free update. Early bird pre-order pricing is now available. You can purchase Luminar 4 and the Signature Looks bundle for $59 (normally $138), or get the Luminar 4, Signature Looks and Luminar 3 bundle for $99 (normally $207). https://photofocus.tips/luminar4-early
If you currently own Luminar 3, be sure to check your account on Skylum to see if you already have a license to Flex (early customers received it for free).
Hmm…you should be able to open it fine as long as you’re running Windows, and as long as you clicked Download for Windows (instead of for Mac). I’d try downloading it again, and if that doesn’t help, reach out to Skylum support. You should be able to do this in your account area on the Skylum website.
Brian, I use IDM for my downloads and as you suggested try a 2nd download which I did. The file does download and it doesn’t matter whether I try to open it directly or from IDM. It looks like it is opening but no show. I have emailed Skylum about 2 days ago without reply, hence our conversation. I will keep trying to contact them Thanks so much for your assistance. kk
Can you please email me your contact information, and I’ll pass it along to someone at Skylum? https://photofocus.com/contact-us/
Bryan, That I would appreciate very much. Thank you for the offer.. my email address is **** I think what has happened is I keep a copy of all my images on a backup Ext drive which I selected for luminar 3 to create a Gallery. The images file may have been too big, as when Luminar 3 tries to create the Gallery it stops at 99%. You can also tell them I would like to upgrade to Luminar 4. This may solve the problem. Many thanks Ian Dodd ****. PS Sorry about misspelling your name.
Thanks. I’ve reached out to one of our contacts, and will be in touch once I hear something back. I’ve also taken your email address out of the comments here … so you don’t get a bunch of spam :)
Byran, I finally had a successful download that is working.(Flex) The problem was although I have internet access wi-fi on my laptop the Exe file was not seeing my internet connection for some strange reason? I took a punt on downloading a trial version and inserting my email address and the Activation code from my accounts and it loaded! I cant see luminar 4 download and still wish to upgrade to it. I haven’t tried to open Luminar 3 and check the gallery, but I think my images file size may exceed their gallery file size limit.I will give you… Read more »
Glad you got the download working. You shouldn’t have an issue with Gallery size; I did pass your info over to Skylum so they should reach out.
Luminar 4 won’t be released til fall sometime. Right now they’re just doing preorders.
Bryan, Yes I did get a link about making a Pre-order but wasn’t sure if I would be able to use the Luminar 4 on my PC when I pick it up.I now know I will be able to use it on both my Laptop & PC. I am still unable to open and run Both luminar 3 and HDR 2019. They were working ok before I did the Gallery download/Upload in Luminar 3.The whole system may need a reset from their end. I will just wait and see when they contact me. I also have Photo Lemur which IS… Read more »
Brian, Thanks again for your prompt assistance. I intend to purchase Luminar 4 but as noted earlier I wasn’t sure if I could use the downloaded program on my PC when it returns. You have answered that question for me. I did go to the site and downloaded the Flex file but don’t seem to be able to open the exe. file after download. I could be missing a procedure after the download. Do I have to open Luminar 3 to activate Flex. Sorry to be a PITA . kk